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Violet3D is a leading innovator, designer and developer of a complete, high-performance wireless audio platform that enables a unique and immersive 3-dimentional (“3-D”) surround sound experience with uncompromising audio performance. The Company’s cost effective wireless audio platform and patented algorithms push the boundaries of conventional surround sound and eliminate the need for traditional precise speaker placement by expanding the listening “sweet spot” to envelope the entire space defined by the consumer, regardless of speaker count or location.

Our patented IP is built to be integrated into solutions for TVs, Notebooks, Game Consoles, Headsets, Tablets & Phones. Our solution for TVs was the worlds first completely wireless surround sound system and won several accolades for design & audio quality. It was also integrated into the Televisions of Germany’s Lifestyle TV line - Orchestra3D, winning it the prestigious EISA award at IFA 2013.

CII Design Excellence Award 2012

NDTV Gadget Guru Awards 2011

Meet the Team

The team at the core of the product consists of eminent and experienced individuals who
through their expertise help make Violet3D the matchless experience that it is.

Ashish has eleven years of experience in the area of consumer electronics and holds a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Ashish Aggarwal’s work was instrumental in the development of new audio standards. He was a recipient of the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Best Paper Award. Ashish started his career as an audio architect where he led a team of eight people in algorithm and software development for Apple’s iPod. He later joined Harman International as part of the Advanced Technology Group where he pioneered the development of new audio algorithms. In 2004, Ashish architected an IEEE 1394-based 'whole home media network’ solution – one of two known systems in the world for network media. From 2005 to 2007, Ashish was the head of an R&D team of thirty highly skilled scientists, software and hardware engineers. During this term, he successfully led the team towards the end-to-end development of Harman’s high-end media server project line – the largest project ever executed by the Harman Consumer Group. He orchestrated the creation and subsequent management of cross-functional and multi-national teams and processes.

In 2007, Ashish was appointed to Harman’s Corporate Technology Council. He later served as Technology and Strategy Consultant to Harman’s CTO’s office.

Vinod is an entrepreneur with a unique perspective on today’s technology landscape by virtue of his background in embedded software, wireless and internet technologies.

Prior to joining Violet3D, Vinod was the founding CEO of Althea Systems (shufflr.tv) an Intel capital funded startup with a cloud based online video discovery platform.

Vinod has been associated with start-ups in the Valley and in India in the areas of gesture recognition, wi-fi beam-forming technology and mobile digital TV. Vinod was an early employee and product manager at TrueSpan, a mobile TV start-up that was acquired by SiRF a few years ago.

Vinod spent the first few years of his career at IBM, where he helped build custom compute devices including a portable PC for the US marines and a pacemaker programmer based on the ThinkPad design.

Vinod is a geek who is passionate about his music and movies which explains his natural affinity to violet3d and its unique speaker technology.

Azhakeson (Azha) V. comes with 30 years of rich experience in Product Design and Manufacturing.

Azha started his career in BPL Ltd where he worked for 22 years rising from a Product Engineer to Head R&D + Manufacturing. There, he takes pride in being able to drive Product Engineering, Value Engineering/Cost Reduction, setting-up and running of large factories, Export/OEM units and Indigenization for the Group. After BPL, Azha Headed Electrolux Kelvinator Ltd as their Head of R&D in 2004 for 2 years. Since 2006, he has been an independent consultant for leading engineering, product and production oriented companies throughout the world including HCL.

Sushil has 21 years of solid and successful result-oriented experience in Software Testing, Customer Engineering, Product Design, Development and Management.

He has designed, developed and executed end-end cycle in development, production, test and customer satisfaction cycle of software. Sushil started with Omnitel Inc. in Fremont CA as a trainee engineer and rose to become the manager of engineering in a short time. From 1993 to 2000, he held senior positions in technical leadership at AT&T/Lucent Technologies in Huntington Beach, CA where he led software development and new product definitions. From 2000 to 2008, Sushil led various engineering groups in Ikanos communication in US and India ranging from systems design to customer engineering to software testing. Sushil Agarwal is M.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering & MS in Computer Science from Ohio University and is certified in Management Practice for Engineering and Technical Professionals from University of California, Irvine.

Sharath has 10+ years of experience in designing and developing software products in the field of Consumer Electronics. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics and Communication from Bangalore University.

Sharath started his career at Toshiba as a Software engineer developing DVB features like Teletext, EPG, etc for the European STB market. In 2005 he moved to Sling Media, a startup then and the maker of the now famous Slingbox which created a new product segment taking live home TV content to PC, MAC, Mobiles, Tablets, etc. Here he worked on many Slingbox variants and STBs having Sling functionality. Most of his work was on groundbreaking ‘first of its kind products’ which included the "first ever Placeshifting capable" Freesat Receiver, Cable Modem, Satellite Receiver, Cable Receiver, etc.

Shankar has over 15 years of experience working with Embedded Systems. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from IIT, Madras.

Shankar has worked in areas such as USB3.0 firmware, mobile TV firmware/middleware, mobile phone baseband (2G/3G), language tools (assemblers, compilers, linkers, loaders), processor simulators and debuggers. Prior to joining SNAP, Shankar led the firmware team at Cypress Semiconductors where in addition to USB3 firmware development; he also built reference platforms helping early customers with their product designs.Previously, Shankar served at SiRF Technologies where he led the software team developing mobile TV software. This includes digital broadcasting standards support like DVB-T/H, T-DMB etc., device drivers for Linux, WinCE, WinXP & middleware integration. Prior to SiRF, Shankar was with Infineon where he implemented drivers for Rake receivers for a 3G processor.

Pankaj has over 11 years of experience in product design and development. He specializes in power electronics and embedded systems electronics design. holds an M.S. in Engineering & Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Cambridge

Pankaj co-designed the hardware module for GE’s first flagship single-phase ANSI smart meter I210+ and also led the design and development efforts of electronics and mechanical functions for the first GE smart meter for IEC markets, SGM 3000 series. He is well versed with different phases of product development including certification, manufacturing, program management, process development and quality improvement. He is a trained black belt and a certified green belt in Six Sigma.

Board of Directors

Ashish has eleven years of experience in the area of consumer electronics and holds a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Ashish Aggarwal’s work was instrumental in the development of new audio standards. He was a recipient of the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Best Paper Award. Ashish started his career as an audio architect where he led a team of eight people in algorithm and software development for Apple’s iPod. He later joined Harman International as part of the Advanced Technology Group where he pioneered the development of new audio algorithms. In 2004, Ashish architected an IEEE 1394-based 'whole home media network’ solution – one of two known systems in the world for network media. From 2005 to 2007, Ashish was the head of an R&D team of thirty highly skilled scientists, software and hardware engineers. During this term, he successfully led the team towards the end-to-end development of Harman’s high-end media server project line – the largest project ever executed by the Harman Consumer Group. He orchestrated the creation and subsequent management of cross-functional and multi-national teams and processes.

In 2007, Ashish was appointed to Harman’s Corporate Technology Council. He later served as Technology and Strategy Consultant to Harman’s CTO’s office.

Bhupen Shah holds a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He brings with him a great deal of expertise and experience.

Bhupen Shah has over twenty-five years of experience in technology development, product development and engineering management in embedded digital media and communication solutions at Sling Media, Emuzed, Dazzle, RealChip, Philips Semiconductors, IBM and other such heavyweights. Bhupen successfully built cost-effective India-based development organizations. He co-founded Sling Media, and as COO & VP Engineering, was instrumental in bringing award winning Slingbox products into the retail market. Sling Media was acquired by Echostar in 2007 and Bhupen currently plays the role of CTO at the same. Prior to Sling Media, Bhupen co-founded Emuzed, Inc., initially serving as COO and EVP of Engineering. His team delivered PC and embedded digital media products to worldwide tier-1 OEMs. Emuzed was then acquired by Flextronics. Bhupen was also a key contributor and VP of Software at Dazzle, the first company to deliver video capture devices to the consumer market. Dazzle was acquired by SCM Microsystems.